Questions tagged [bounty]
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Will we have a Holiday Bountapalooza this year?
The holiday bountapolooza is (was... shall be again...) an invitation to search for and place bounties on deserving questions and/or answers. It not only helps get people in the mood to post bounties ...
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What do you think about a fake bounty? (this isn't exactly click-bait...)
I would like to draw attention to one and, eventually, more questions that I've posted that have community wiki answers. The Bounty system isn't really designed for that, but it's the most obvious way ...
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I have excess rep to spend and want to get old questions answered
I have about 6000 rep right now, but I have kind of lost my will to participate in this site. After thinking about it a bit I realized that one easy way to use my current rep is to do the following. ...
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Is there a reason we can't give bounty-like facilities to questions on Worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is a unique SE site in that, users often spend as much, if not more time, to craft and moderate questions than answers.
A person that asks the question has to do research, formatting, ...
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Why is the bounty limit 500?
Seems very low considering most users here have been on the website for a very long time and 500 isn't that much.
I mean, is it an arbitrary random number or is there a specific reason behind it?
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The fourth annual holiday bountapalooza
The last three years, we've had an unofficial holiday bountapalooza, which we run concurrently with Winter Bash. It's about giving back to the community by placing bounties on questions that need ...
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Why Do I LOSE Points Every Time I Make a Bounty?
This is a problem that I have been getting every time I have given some of my questions a Bounty. But instead of GAINING points, as I thought a Bounty should, I LOSE them. What is going on?
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The third annual Holiday Bountapalooza
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Come one come all, to the third annual share your imaginary internet points party!
Jussssst in case this isn't entirely clear, an explanation, which ...
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Do "this question has not received enough attention" bounties work as well as we'd like them to?
I've answered a couple of bounty questions in the last couple of weeks, the bounty list was not something I'd had a lot to do with before. They seem to attract a lot of answers, which is the point, ...
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Bounty reason isn't showing up
A couple days ago, I started a bounty on this question, selecting the reason "Authoritative reference needed". I didn't add any supplementary text; I felt that the default wording said enough. When I ...
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Is it ok to set up a bounty for a question, where I already know which answer I want to accept?
The reason for setting up a bounty is, that I want to reward a similar but later answer, which goes into great details, but in the end is very similar to the earlier answer, which contained everything ...
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Can I split a bounty?
The instructions for a bounty rewarding exemplary existing answers states:
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
However, it doesn't look like I can split the ...
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What to do if I want to change the numbers in a question?
Main site question: Remotely controlled battle starship.
I posted the question and it was answered by several users, but now I want to change the numbers and add some more detail. Is it acceptable to ...
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The second annual Holiday Bountapalooza
Greetings, worldbuilders! It's been a long year of creature-designing, map-making and society-building, and we're now in the throes of Winter Bash. Last year, to commemorate the holidays, we had the ...
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How do I award a bounty after it was auto-awarded?
I put a bounty on one of my questions over a week ago but had some major life events and wasn't able to get back in time to award it! Half the bounty was auto-awarded to the highest rated answer, but ...
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Get in the spirit: The first annual holiday bounty extravaganza - or bountapalooza
GTZ to you world builders.
In the spirit of the holidays I have offered up three bounties on some of my older questions.
Please feel free to join me in offering some of your hard earned (... well ...
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Is it considered bad form to ask OP to assign bounty if s/he has accepted your answer?
I don't want to come across as petty or ungrateful over what are essentially meaningless internet points, so I was just wondering what the rule or general concensus is in this situation. I feel I ...
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VTC on a question with a bounty
Today, during my early morning stroll around the site, I found this question:
Super A.I. trapped in an R/C car. Can it escape?
It is blatantly off-topic, since it's about the actions of a single ...
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